angelage

English

Etymology

angel +‎ -age

Noun

angelage (uncountable)

1. The existence or state of angels.
   • 1850, Sylvester Judd, Philo: an Evangeliad, page 22:

     Tell me of Angelage, Gabriel. O'er will of mortals we do not preside;

   • 1881, "A Woman", Facts, page 21:

     But I was not given to angelage, nor philanthropy, nor sociability that day; and not being well enough acquainted with the confidence game to play it successfully, I asked the burning doctor of divinity to please excuse me , and I walked off to the car and transplanted myself into a seat in the extreme corner, with a whole army of misanthropic ideas prancing within my fastidious brain […]

   • Between 1887 and 1907, Mary Hayes Chynoweth, The True Life

     […] beautiful habilaments and external elegance and stately demeanor are not the indubitable or essential concomitants of angelage […]

   • 1945, Lawrence Emerson Nelson, Our Roving Bible, page 20:

     To him Arthur became the human soul seeking perfection, his castle the symbol of man's slow climb from savagery to angelage.